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What this report finds: Raising interest rates is a poor strategy for managing asset bubbles. Low rates did not cause the housing bubble of the early 2000s and higher rates would have been ineffective at preventing it. To deflate an asset bubble interest...

Improving Access to Medicines: What needs to be done This South Bulletin provides a  summary of the South Centre’s three submissions to the UN Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines on some of the key actions that need to be taken...

Robert E. Hall: Macroeconomics of Persistent Slumps http://web.stanford.edu/~rehall/HBC042315.pdf Tim Worstall: We Really, Seriously, Don't Want Currency Manipulation Provisions In Trade Deals http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/04/25/we-really...

We begin our collection of headlines form the economic, political, and environmental realms with a new reality from CNBC: More men in their prime working years lack jobs, says WSJ A large number of men who are still in their prime working years find...

2014 – A Year of Investing Dangerously – John Butler For those rich in assets, 2013 was a good year. Equity markets, especially in the US, rose substantially. Property markets continued their recovery. Even bonds, which lose value when interest...